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Fixtures in 2003, 2008, and 19th C Glasgow

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The mind is a remarkable thing.  If you ask around, you’ll find Celtic fans tell you we played Boavista in the Uefa Cup semi-final in Porto on the Thursday night, before going to Ibrox on the Saturday (it was the Sunday).

Similarly, Barry Ferguson is mumping his gums without restrain today, complaining about Rangers fixtures in May 2008.  Rangers were due to play a ridiculous number of games in May due to qualifying for the Scottish Cup and Uefa Cup finals, while catching up on postponed fixtures.

The SPL decided to accommodate them by extending the league programme until two days before the Scottish Cup final.  This final was on the last possible date before clubs were ordered to release players for that year’s Uefa European Championships, which started 14 days later.

This season has echoes of 2008 but nothing more.  Whereas clubs would have been forbidden from using certain players after the date of the Scottish Cup final in 2008, under current proposals for this year, the second bottom club from the Premiership and qualifier from the Championship will need to retain a number of players beyond their contract end date of 31 May.

Retaining players beyond 31 May will cost clubs money, and players could theoretically refuse to extend their season by a few days, which is this season’s problem.  2008’s problem was a hard deadline imposed by Uefa with no extensions possible.  The decision was out of the SPL’s hands.

Great article on the club site today marking Br. Walfrid’s passing and the struggles faced by our forefathers in the late 19th Century.  The news that the Foundation are feeding 500 of Glasgow’s homeless today continues the momentum from Wednesday night.  Well done to all involved.

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  2. BGX on

    A 4th Treble Within Our Grasp…I Will say That Again..

     

    A 4th Treble…My Son Is 13..He aint Saw 1…ive Saw 3….Im Lovin This …RC….Ronny Convert.

     

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  4. Alcora on

    Le petit Merde, I named a hamster after that snide, lowlife, backstabbing, tracksuit selling cnut of a HUN.

     

     

    Sorry – In reference to my last post.

     

     

    Brian

  7. Hamiltontim on

    big georges fan club – hail, hail, wee oscar

     

     

    00:10 on 18 April, 2015

     

    hamiltontim

     

     

    23:56 on 17 April, 2015

     

     

    —/-

     

     

    HT – emailed you re Trust. Happy to participate.

     

    HH

     

    BGFC

     

     

    ——–

     

     

    Good man I’ll reply tomorrow as I’m on my phone.

     

     

    Guys it’ll probably only cost you a pound and all you need to do is click on a link and send an email.

     

     

    hamiltontim@hotmail.co.uk

     

     

    Without being harsh, if you don’t send an email then don’t bother bumping your gums about anything that annoys you in future about going to watch Celtic. The trust deals with all the wee things as well as more contentious issues like paying a living wage to all Celtic employees.

  9. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    ALCORA

     

     

    It would have been offensive to have even named a leech after him.

  12. marspapa on

    Roy Croppie

     

     

    If you could … The cure …PICTURES OF YOU

     

     

    Sitting here in a quiet moment thinking of ones i’ve loved and lost… TIA

  29. petec on

    roy croppie

     

     

    00:47 on 18 April, 2015

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1lyu1KKwC74

     

     

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

     

     

    seems to me to be a title of a Celtic supporter’s experiences from birth to death following and supporting his/her club in a hostile environment. However we won !

     

     

    HH

     

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     

     

    Yer a Legend m8ty, I’ve almost posted 2 tracks tonight that you put on, something stopped me. Again, I find this totally remarkable, very spooky, in a Great way, I hasten to add.

  31. Alcora on

    BMCWP

     

    Being a bit tipsy and the wife and wean being away, i researched my ‘Big Bag Of Celtic’ and found this wee jem from NTV No 17.

     

    On page 17 it has a lookalike section with the quote

     

     

    ‘Dear NTV

     

    I have noticed a remarkable likeness between a really gruesome and ugly character who appears in the film ” the lost Boys” and a certain petit merde, who could also be described as a “lost boy”, if not a lost soul.

     

    I wonder if perhaps the character in the film was modelled on petit merde?

     

     

    Yours in the back row

     

    Alfred Hitchcock

     

    Hollywood.

     

     

    Smashing!!

     

     

    Brian

  34. marspapa on

    Haircut 100

     

    Scritti politti

     

    Flock of seagulls

     

    Aztec camera

     

    Waterboys

     

    Gallagher and lyle

     

    AWB

     

    Genesis

     

    Luther van dross

     

    Goerge benson

     

    Edwin starr

     

    Detroit Emeralds

     

    Detroit spinners

     

    Acdc

     

    Whitesnake

     

    Gloria estefan

     

    Lisa stansfield

     

     

    CELINE DIONE “immortality” , aye that would be good , cheers .

  36. Delaneys Dunky on

    RC

     

     

    You excelled yourself with Duel. Immense track that reminds me of an immense girlfriend fae Bath. ;))

  38. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    ALCORA

     

     

    Between your good self and Mr Hitchcock,I do believe you have nailed it!

  40. clogher celt on

    Winning Captains,

     

     

    Try the Michael Collins, Irish Bar, Barcelona. I checked their website, they are showing it. I don’t know close it is to you.

     

     

    Sorry I don’t know how to post links. If you google it all the details are there.

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